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Print Post Approved - No: 234093/00010 No 5 of 1994 JUNE What happened to May? would like to raise, would you please ring me, 660 3917 (ah). Your input is valued. The observant Bulletin reader will have noticed that this is Bulletin No 5 for June, By now, you are getting used to the third although the last Bulletin was No 4 for April. runway's new name - the parallel runway. The reason is that copy for the Bulletin arises The third runway t Kingsford Smith Airport, mainly from the Management Committee, and described by one proponent as "the best thing now that the Committee meeting has moved since sliced white bread", will constrain from the second to the third Wednesday of the development of 's sea port at Botany. month it has become very difficult to get the The Glebe Society said it would, in one of Bulletin out before the end of the month. many points the Society made in response to the runway's draft EIS. The Maritime Services So, making a virtue of necessity, I have Board draft Port Land Use Strategy 2010 decided that its better to be early for June than (Dec. 1993) lists the constraints thus: late for May. • " Molineaux Point and the new parallel Editor runway provide significant constraints. Future port development will be confined to the area around a new basin which has been dredged Aircraft and Glebe. between the parallel runway and Brotherson Dock." (That dredging related to the Members will have noted the Federal community's unsuccessful court action in Government's shift in direction regarding 1992). Badgerys Creek airport development: The intention now is to construct the airport to • "the extent to which port development can handle international jet passenger aircraft much be implemented around the new basin in a way sooner than the Federal Airports Corporation which will meet CAA constraints in terms of plans. It is vital that there are at least some (aircraft) height, noise and lighting requires Western Sydney people appointed to the board investigation;" of Badgerys Creek Airport Pty. Ltd.so that the • the proximity of Sydney airport and, in region can begin to steer the course of the particular, the parallel runway: Brotherson airport from its inception. dock is already within the 51 metre glide path Selling airports has moved onto the agenda restriction. Development to the west up to a rapidly: according to an ABC radio interview distance of 450 metres from the centre line of with a SA politician, long-term investors such the third runway will also be within the 51 as superannuation funds have expressed metre zone;" interest in owning Adelaide airport. • "development westward of Brotherson Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport is likely to Dock becomes increasingly exposed to swell be sold. What will the issues be for us entering from the south-east." residents, arising from these changes? Some Botany Bay sea port had been intended to important ones are the curfew, no cargo jet service Sydney for a very long time. movements in curfew hours, compensation, Molineux Point was built for shipping noise protection of schools and other public requirements, to protect the part of the bay buildings, safety standards of airport into which the NSW and federal governments operations, train access to Badgerys Creek have now dumped the third runway . Airport. If you have ideas and points you By the time you read this article, the They write: "By 1994, we had attracted a body Community Advisory Committee's dissenting of members from a range of locations who report on the draft Noise Management Plan for were very concerned about lack of Kingsford Smith Airport and the third runway commitment on the part of Government bodies will have been made public. You may recall in and the EPA management to proper standards a recent article the federal ombudsman had for environmental protection in the rapidly agreed to assist the community in gaining developing inner city and foreshores area, access to data relating to aircraft noise particularly in the face of demands for forecasts. concessions from disproportionately powerful School Parent and Citizens Associations private lobby groups, such as the unregulated grouped into the metropolitan east are gearing Helicopter Association of ... Our up to respond to the aircraft noise issue. Their principal activity at the moment is our on- recent newsletter comments ". . under certain going campaign against the proposed heliport weather conditions, many of our children will at Darling Harbour, and the general lack of suffer up to 90% disruption each lesson of regulation and low flight height of helicopters each day for up to 2 or 3 months of the year. in our region ... Membership includes people Areas to the north of the airport will be subject from South Sydney, City, Drummoyne, to an increase of around 300%, or more, with Leichhardt and Lane Cove electorates and we the introduction of revised flight paths for the have the support of those Councils." 3rd runway." Whether noise forecasts stay at 300% or are revised upwards remains to be The Action Group's next meeting will be at Balmain Town Hall, 20.June, at 7pm. seen. The proposed heliport is very, very close to Members and residents are urged to keep Glebe - just beyond Blackwattle Bay and logging aircraft noise complains by ringing the Pyrmont Hill. noise complaint number. If there are no complaints, authorities will assume people are Glebe Society members and/or friends accepting aircraft noise. may want to become members, thus Is it true that the first aircraft to land on the supporting the good work being third runway was hauled onto it, dripping wet, carried out. A membership form is from the waters of Botany Bay? If so, it is a included with this bulletin. You will need to send a $10.00 Membership fee suitably damning blessing to this appalling per person. Please make cheques runway. payable to ICFCAG. The address is on the Alison McKeown. form. If you would like more information please ring me (ah) 660 3917. Alison McKeown AIO CUEW AICA OISE COMAIS A OUS • E. 06 00 Report from Council As I haven't written a report for some time, there are a large number of items I will report on very briefly. Any member who wants to find out more about these or other matters is welcome to ring me on 660 0208. Bundling of overhead wires Pyrmont Heliport The first stage of this Road The Inner City and Foreshores Community Project initiative, from Broadway to St Johns Action Group Inc. arose from the Residents Road,will begin late in June this year. It will Against Heliport group's earlier work, which then become possible for trees to grow to their was to oppose the proposed heliport on Wharf full height on both sides of Glebe's main 14 at Pyrmont. street. SYEY OMEOAIC OSIA

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Homoeopathic Hospital It is one of my pet projects to produce, one The Department of Corrective Services has day, a guide to the many beautiful walks been approaching local bodies sounding them around Glebe. By that time, I hope to be able out on a proposal for a Transition Prison for to include strolls around the entire Glebe Women in the present Homoeopathic Hospital waterfront, as well as this splendid addition. building. Sandra Nori, our local member, has called a public meeting for Thursday, June 9 Hardys Timber Yard in Glebe Town Hall at 7 pm. It is most The Board of Fire Commissioners has important that every Society member attend produced an adverse report on this cluster of who possibly can, as this is a key site in Glebe ex-industrial buildings. Council has ordered Point Road. fire prevention measures to be installed within 60 days, and will hold a meeting with all New Park for Glebe interested parties on site at 4 pm on Tuesday, As part of the new development on the old June 14 to discuss the future of the site. Meloys site in Lombard Street, a new park has been created linking William Carlson Reserve Bellevue Blackwattle Bay Park in Palmerston Avenue to Ernest Pedersen The DA for, this proposal of restoration, kiosk, Reserve in Ferry Road. small restaurant and public toilets is now being advertised. I have requested an environmental The Park has spectacular views of the City impact statement. along its entire length. It overlooks the Bits and Pieces entrance to the railway tunnel under Glebe. I have requested additional picnic tables for From each end, steps lead down to Bridge Jubilee Park. My requests on behalf of Road and Glebe High. For the first time, it has residents for red phone boxes outside the Post now become possible to walk all the way to Office and the repainting of Glebe Court Blackwattle Bay Park without returning to House have now been fulfilled. . Cr Neil Macindoe. (The views expressed by Councillors are not necessarily those of The Glebe Society. Ed.) Address by Major M J Miller, Sydney University Regiment at the Dawn Service of Rememberance Glebe War Memorial, 25 April, 1994

The text of Major Miller's address has kindly been supplied by Max Soiling I feel truly honoured to be asked to speak on behalf of the Commanding Officer of Sydney University Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Edwards, at this service of Remembrance. I know that my Colonel has a close personal involvement in the restoration project and he would have liked to have been here this morning but unfortunately Regimental duties have required him to be in Armidale tolday. As I understand, this is the first dawn sevice at this Memorial in living memory (or in any case, since the restoration project commenced.) In my view, the Glebe War Memorial Restoration project is part of a renewed community interest in their war memorials. Not merely an inquisitive interest in architecture or social history or military history, but instead a desire to obtain some empathy with or undertstanding of, the experience of an earlier Australian generation and an appreciation of the human effort and suffering and sacrifice of ordinary Australians. For nearly fifty years our nation has been relatively undisturbed by war. That is not to say that we have not asked young Australian servicemen to defend our perceived national interests in overseas theatres of operations and Korea, Malaya, Borneo and South Vietnam are examples of this fact. Even as we gather here the morning, 140 members of the Australian Defence Force are serving with United Nations military missions in Somalia, the Sahara, Cambodia, Bosnia and elsewhere. But for the most part, we have come to take for granted the luxury of a peaceful existence which Australia and Australians paid dearly for in the 1914 - 18 war and the 1939 -45 war. Perhaps our dulled sensitivity as a community to these events has been sharpened by recent occurrences. In 1990, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli the nation's memory was stirred by the moving scenes of our Prime Minister's address at the Dawn Service at Gallipoli in the presence of the handful of frail old men who had been the very men who had stormed those beaches in 1915. And again on the 1 1 th November last year, our nation paused to pay its respects as an Unknown Australian soldier exhumed from And to make this point Iwould like to borrow a Western Front war cemetery, was buried in a the words of our Prime Minister: tomb on the Australian War Memorial on the 75th Anniversary of the Armistice. These 'For out of the war (the Great War) came a events and others caused us to recall the extent lesson which transcended the horror and of debt we have as a community to those tragedy and the inexcusable folly. It was a Australians who had been called upon to make lesson about ordinary people - and the lesson a sacrifice for the sake of the defence of was that they were not ordinary. On all sides Australia. they were the heroes of that war; not the As we stand near this war memorial at this generals and the politicians but the soldiers Anzac Day Dawn Service, let us pause to think and sailors and nurses - those who taught us what it represented to the people of Glebe in to endure hardship, to show courage, to be the 1920s. This memorial contains the names bold as well as resilient, to believe in of 792 Glebe residents who served in the 1914 ourselves, to stick together." - 18 War. If we were able to line them up in Just as this memorial has endured the test of standard military columns of threes, they time, so too has this lesson. would stretch from here to the Broadway. Nearly one quarter of those, 174, did not As we gather as Australians, this morning to return and are either buried in Gallipoli, honour those Australians who have given their France, Flanders or have no known grave. lives for our country, let us do so, not just For 174 Glebe families this memorial was not with a sense of sadness for their loss, but with merely a magnificent marble edifice but a a sense of gratitude for their effort and a sense reminder of a beloved family member, a son, a of pride in their achievements and let us husband, a father who would never return to dedicate ourselves to serving our nation in Glebe because they had given their lives in a peace as selflessly as they did in time of war. cause in which they deeply delieved. But I also believe that for those families and for the other six hundred Glebe men who did return, this memorial was a source of pride, a testimony to a community's effort for a cause. Those Gblebe men rallied to the Nation's call with a pride in their empire, their nation and their area. Indeed, many of these men whose names are recorded here, enlisted in the 1st AIF in the Drill Hall which still stands nearby in Hereford Street. Many were allotted to the 55th Battalion, which took the regional title, The West Sydney Regiment. That Battalion alone, whose colours are laid up in St. John's Church, Glebe, earned Battle Honours that are synonymous with both the courage and the carnage of the First World War such as the Somme, Ypres, Messines, Amiens and Mont St Quentin. Total Environment Centre Tour The community that built this War memorial in The Total Environment Centre organises the 1920s believed that this enormous sacrifice regular one-day tours which may be of interest had been made to secure a lasting peace as the to members. The next tour will be to Great War was proclaimed as the War to end Wentworth Falls on Sunday 26 June. all wars. But sadly that war was followed by a second even more terrible war in 1939 to 1945 A train from Central Station at 9.05am reaches and, as I mentioned earlier, the last fifty years Wentworth Falls at 10.50, where a local bus have still required Australian servicemen and takes you to the Conservation Hut at the servicewomen to risk their lives and Valley of the Waters cafe at 11 am. There are sometimes die for Austalia. We may be some short walks, talks by local experts, as tempted to think that these 174 Glebe men died well as lunch at the cafe, before catching the in vain. But by honouring them, and other return train at 3.35pm. For further information Australians who have died in war since, by ring the TEC on 247 4714 or 247 8476. being here today we say that this is not the case. Dining Out Committee, held at Lyndhurst, Darghan Street, Glebe. For a pleasant evening of good food and good company, come to the monthly Dining Out Tuesday 28 June - 6:30 pm - Dining Out - night, and meet other Glebe Society Cafe Troppo, 175 Glebe Point Road. members.June's gathering will be at the Cafe For bookings, please ring Ian Edwards on Troppo, 175 Glebe Point Road - 6:30pm 817 4329 Tuesday 28th of June. Sunday 26 June - 9:05 am - train from Central Please ring Ian Edwards on 817 4329. to join Total Environment Centre tour at Wentworth Falls. For Your Diary Sunday 6 November - Glebe Society House Wednesday 18 May - 7:30 pm - monthly Inspection and Open Day meeting of the Glebe Society Management

THE GLEBE SOCIETY inc. Archivist Management Committee Lyn Milton 660 7930 President Convenors of Vacant Sub-committees Senior Vice President All convenors are ex-officio members of the Marianne von Knobelsdorff 692 0916 (H) Management Committee Junior Vice President Aircraft Cynthia Jones 660 2451 (H) Alison McKeown 660 3917 Immediate Past President Bays & Foreshores Ted McKeown 660 3917 (H) John Buckingham 660 7780 391 3000 (W) Children & Glebe Secretary Louise Schweikert 660 7205 Jeanette Knox 660 7781 (H) Environment Treasurer Fiona Campbell 891 8284 (W) Mavis McCarthy 660 5119 (H) Harold Park Committee Gideon Rutherford 692 0239 David Browne 660 0865 (H) Light Rail Otto Cserhalmi 552 3800 (W) Andrew Wood 660 2194 Edwina Doe 660 7066 (H) Peter Strickland 660 7624 (H) Planning Barbara Sutton 660' 0782 (H) Linda Nash 818 3095 Whittemore 660 7969 (H) Pr Perumal 660 0711(W) Contacts Traffic Bulletin Editor Jeanette Knox 660 7781 Jan Macindoe 660 0208 Membership List Christine Stewart 660 8324 Edwina Doe 660 7066 Publications Patricia Jackson 660 8849

Membership of The Glebe Society Costs: Ordinary $25; additional household members $5 each; Student/Pensioner $10; Institution $30 Write to P.O. Box 100, Glebe 2037, or ring Jeanette Knox on 660 7781.